Organic Signature Wines

</head> <body bgcolor="#F0F1FF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#000080" onload="window.status=''"> <script language="JavaScript1.2">  </script>  <script language="JavaScript1.2">  </script> <p align="center"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" size="5"><b>Family Cambronero wine-growing tradition</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana">Francisco Cambronero Torres (Franchete) started the vine-growing tradition when he planted the <b>first vines</b> in the early years of the last century.</p> <p>In 1983, Francisco Cambronero Pérez, alongside his brother Antonio, constructed the winery to process the <b>grapes from these crops</b>.</p> <p>In 1999 Francisco Cambronero Pérez, alongside his children Francisco, Encarna, Isabel and Lola, created the company Vinos Cambronero S.L., which currently operates the <b>family winery</b>.</font></p> <p align="center"><b><font face="Verdana" size="5">The production zone</font></b></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana">The production zone is located in the autonomous community of Castilla la Mancha. The region is located to the northeast of the province of Albacete, between the Júcar and Cabriel Rivers.</p> <p>It enjoys a continental climate, with slight influences of Mediterranean temperatures and <b>little rain</b>.</p> <p>The weather conditions are extreme with temperatures nearing -20º C in winter and 45º C in summer. This, joined with the low humidity content of the air, helps control plagues, due to which it is relatively easy to produce extremely high-quality <b>organic wines</b>.</p> <p>The vineyards, located at an average height ranging between 600 and 700 metres, receive warm, dry winds from the west on summer days, whilst at night the winds are fresh and damp, from the Mediterranean. Thus, the <b>thermal difference</b> between night and day during the grape's ripening process is very pronounced.</p> <p>This special climate favours the formation of polyphenols on the grapes, and makes this region the perfect location for obtaining superior <b>quality red and rosé wines</b>.</p> </font> <p align="center"><b><font face="Verdana" size="5">The vineyard</font></b></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana">Our company has one primary objective; to produce <b>Organic Signature Wines</b>. We are aware that to do this it is not enough to just produce organic grapes, but certain exceptional conditions are necessary both in the grape and the elaboration process.<br> <br> Our main advantage over our competitor is that we only have one vine-grower as a supplier of grapes, which is also the enologist of the winery. This means that the aim throughout the productive process is the same, to obtain an excellent quality wine.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana">The difference in our grapes begins in the conception of the vineyard. Our frames are the highest in the area (two meters), with a greater formation height (one meter twenty centimeters) and with a greater density of plantation( three thousand six hundred plants per hectare).</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana">With greater height we want to obtain the <b>maximum leaf surface exposure</b>, which is essential for the optimum ripening of the grapes.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana">With greater height we want separate the grapes from the ground, to get two objectives:</font></p> <ul> <li> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana">On the one hand, on separating the grapes from the ground, the humidity is reduced, which arises from the ground, where the grapes are, which increases their airing, which in turn reduces the risks of cryptogamic diseases. This is very important in organic farming, given that the prevention of diseases reduces the use of products in the vineyard.</font></p> </li> <li> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana">Also, the ground accumulates heat during the day and releases it at night. On seperating the grapes from the floor the thermic difference increases, in the grape, between the day and night. This thermic difference is very important for the correct ripening of the polyphenols in getting red and rose wines of high quality. Our wine producing area has one of the greatest thermic differences between day and night in all the peninsula, but to accentuate this fact, we are maximising these conditions, with the aim of obtaining exceptional grapes.</font></p> </li> </ul> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana">With greater density of plantation we want to get a premature plant stress with the aim of obtaining a <b>smaller grape size</b>, at the same time as reducing the production of grape per plant.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana">This conception of vineyard is complemented by our production system, which isn't limited to organic farming, but goes beyond it. To obtain grapes of maximum quality, we exploit to the maximum the climate characteristics of our area of production and vineyard.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana">Our watering system is focused on the production of <b>small grapes</b>, to get the <b>maximum quantity of skin</b> per kilo of grape, with the aim of obtaining the best possible characteristics.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana">For this we provoke a hydric stress at the beginning of the vegative cycle to obtain a premature halting of growth.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana">Once the this halting is obtained we provide the water necessary to impede the falling of leaves, with the aim of obtaining a <b>good maturing</b>.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana">This system of production has one large problem, which is its <b>low productivity</b>, which we compensate in part with a pruning system of more buds per hectare, to produce more bunches, but with a low output. Our production has an average output of 30 hectolitres per hectare. This output is very low from the point of view of the winegrowers, but it is necessary to produce <b>high expression wines</b>.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana">This particular system of production gives our wines a different and personal touch from other wines.<br> Our production is made up of more than fifty hectares of vines, with the varieties of Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Petit Verdot, Bobal, Tempranillo and Garnacha..</p> </font> <p align="center"><font face="Verdana" size="5"><b>Organic Spanish winery</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana">Consisting of <b>small concrete warehouses</b> with capacities ranging between 39 (858 gallons) and 390 hectolitres (8580 gallons), the total volume reaches the figure of 12,000 hectolitres (264000 gallons).</p> <p>Approximately 1500 hectolitres of wine are produced as an average annual using <b>ecological grapes</b> from vineyards that are the property of the <b>Cambronero Family</b>.</p> </font><font color="#000000" size="5" face="Verdana"> <p align="center"><b>Organic Signature Wines</b></p> </font> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><font size="2">VINOS CAMBRONERO creates wines with <b>organic grapes</b> coming from the vineyards of the <b>Cambronero Family</b>.</p> <p>VINOS CAMBRONERO markets its own wines under the brand<b> FRANCHETE<sup>®</sup>, </b>in memory of the family patriarch.</p> <ul> <li><b>Red Coupage</b> organic wine</li> <li><b>Red Cabernet Sauvignon</b> organic wine</li> <li><b>Red Barrique</b> organic wine</li> <li><b>Rosé Cabernet Sauvignon</b> organic wine</font></li> </ul> <p align="center"><font size="5"><b>Awards got for our wines</b></font></p> </font><p align="left"> <font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000"><b>Mezquita de Plata</b>. Cordoba 10-11-2007.</p> <p><b>Ecoracimo de Bronce</b>. Cordoba 15-9-2007.</p> <p>Finalista <b>Texu Botanico</b>de Gijón. Gijón 9-6-2007.</p> <p> <p"></p"> <b>Estrella de Bronce</b>. Estella 6-12-2006.</p> <p></p> <p><b>Mezquita de Plata</b>. Cordoba 11-11-2007.</font></p> <p><b>Mezquita de Bronce</b>. Cordoba 11-11-2007.</font></p> </span> </body>